Dirty Projectors' breakthrough 2009 LP, Bitte Orca, was featured as January 2020's Essentials Record of the Month. It's pressed on Blue and Red Color in Clear vinyl at GZ Vinyl and will arrive in a case-wrapped jacket with spot gloss.

The Lonesome Crowded West is the second studio album by the seminal Pacific Northwest indie rock band Modest Mouse, and was featured as the Essentials Record of the Month for March 2022. It's pressed on on “Bottom of the Sky” colored vinyl at GZ Vinyl with lacquers cut by Bob Weston of Chicago Mastering Service. It includes Listening Notes by Scott Swayze, who produced the album, and an art print by Violet Aveline. The record will arrive in a foil stamped, tip-on, gatefold jacket.

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